Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Jeff. While you share with us, I bet others are having the same experience as I am: thinking about those I've lost. My parents and few siblings, of course. My dear friend who succumbed to TWO cancers and who bestowed my nickname "Miselle" to me.
And yesterday was the first anniversary of the death of our good friend, Tom. He started as our personal trainer at our local park district. Didn't drink, ate healthy, exercised daily, was a loving husband and father, and most impressively quietly extensively volunteered in our community. And yet, he got a brain tumor.
Keeping those names in the minds of others keeps those we've lost forever alive in us. I'm not expressing this well, but I think everyone knows what I mean.
Unfortunately, having a healthy lifestyle doesn't guarantee good health or longevity. I think so much of our destiny is in our genes. It helps explain why not all smokers get lung cancer, everyone obese doesn't get diabetes and so on. Trump's parents lived to be 88 and 92. That was way back before all the food and health warnings. I think that's why he's almost 80 despite his bad health habits.
As Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out - all of those ppl in history whose life expectancies were around 30-40 yrs - WERE EATING ORGANICALLY if you think about it 😁😅 (pre-science)
That statistic always annoyed me. If you calculated the life expectancy for males once they made it through childhood they often live quite long. It’s children that catch all those diseases or have accidents while women die in childbirth that bring the average life expedient so low.
I think you’re right Deborah. My wife’s grandparents lived into their late 80’s and early 90’s and smoked till the day they died and did not die of lung cancer. And we ran into a nice gal in her 40’s at a vacation rental that was eating “healthy” food for years to try to avoid things like cancer. She ate broccoli religiously and she hated broccoli. She said she was just diagnosed with breast cancer and was in despair partly because she had tried to do everything “right”. She said “I ate broccoli” followed by “I hate broccoli!” And “Look where it got me”. It reminded me of The Mary Tyler Moore Show where her boss says “You’ve got spunk!”…
“I hate spunk!”
I guess we usually never know when our number is up. Might as well eat cheese cake and enjoy life.
At the age of 99 Betty White was asked what her secret was for living so long and she replied “I never ate anything green”. That about says it all.
Trump’s father was drifting off into the abyss years before he died. Donald is following the same path, but given that 49% of the voters chose to re-elect Trump, he’s far more dangerous to himself and others than even his arguably horrible father. It’s time to put Trump, Chuck Grassley and Sue Colins in a home.
Said it before, and I'm saying it again. There was widespread vote caging; secret purging of voter rolls to the tune of tens of thousands of votes (voters didn't know until they arrived at the polls); provisional ballots tossed because reasons; mail-in ballots tossed on questionable technicalities; rules changed after voting had begun; and other GOP dirty tricks. There were stark, measurable anomalies among the totals (e.g., on the same ballot, votes for Dems down the line, except for Drump; huge numbers of bullet ballots), possibly due to interference by Elon's hacker posse. Mark Elias has said that if every legal ballot had been counted, Harris would have won.
Bottom line: we have no idea how many people actually voted or didn't, and what the results actually were.
The seemingly random or at least capricious way we lose good people while those terrible destructive miscreants stick around drives me nuts. I knew someone similar to your friend Tom who ate right (vegetarian) and lived a clean lifestyle but then died of melanoma. Geez.
The real problem is the asymmetry between good and evil. Good follows rules, obeys laws, has ethics and morals, resists base impulses, tries to be benevolent on a wider scale beyond itself. Evil does the opposite of all those things, and evil's scope is exceedingly narrow since self-interest is its defining characteristic.
The fact that he was musing a few months back about whether he's going to heaven is indicative of how delusional he is. His whole life has been one long episode of cheating, lying, victimizing others, and unrelenting selfishness. If heaven exists as it has been represented as a place for the deserving, there is no fucking way he would ever get there. And yet he cannot see that. He had better hope the entrance criteria is a lot different than we've been told.
Your nickname is beautiful. Our friends called me “Catheter” because I had fleeting thoughts of becoming a doctor. They are gone now, but what I wouldn’t give to hear “Catheter” again.
1. Once Iran is blown off the face of the earth will there be any need to monitor the Strait? Will there even be a Strait?
2. One of my spawn attended UCONN. When I visited we drove to Mystic and ate at The Shipwrights Daughter. Truly one of the best meals I’ve had the pleasure to enjoy.
"He does not have the mental sharpness it takes to lead the country."
Fifty-nine percent. Not a poll — a diagnosis nobody's been permitted to officially file. The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos survey found 55 percent believe the dementia-addled despot lacks the physical health to serve. Sixty-seven percent say he doesn't carefully consider important decisions. He called his press secretary "Kellyanne." He said "Iceland" when he meant "Greenland" four times in Davos. The bruises on his hands keep appearing; the explanation keeps changing.
The Straits of Schrödinger are a dimension of sight and sound, where everything is true and false at the same time.
And of course, for Maladministration 2.0, all that needs to be done in any interview is win the moment. Owing to Murc's Law, whatever they say needs not even be consistent with what's said in the same paragraph. Just has to win that instant; the servile press will type what is said uncritically, and we careen on to the next crisis.
As a disgraced Guardie major his men were so alarmed at his batshit drunken Nazi behavior they reported him, and he resigned rather than face the court martial coming his way. His grudge list was longer than Trump's, and he's chewed the military to rags. I hope that his version of God is accurate, because that man will be granted eternal life in the lava pit.
Is it all about market manipulation? Why the fuck aren't they figuring out a way to end this thing and just lie and say "we win!" They lie about absolutely everything, so just call it already!
Yes, I worked for several years on the International Monetary Market in the Mercantile Exchange. Markets could swing wildly on important international political news.
I heard a financial commentator note that the irrational Market Manipulation Monday rebounds for the DOW and S&P are caused by algorithms that do not fully engage with human reality. It's not a reliable barometer of the financial health of the nation or world. Just a casino where the house always wins.
I subscribe to Seth Abramson's substack and he recently had a very informative post about how DT's history shows why he is personally so fixated on Iran.
Sidebar: Donald Trump Was Always Going to Go to War with Iran
America is at war with Iran almost entirely because of Trump’s personal whims, and not due to any national security concerns America faced from Iran when Trump first took office in 2017; at that point, the Iran nuclear deal President Barack Obama had negotiated (the JCPOA) had gotten Iranian nuclear enrichment down to zero.
Rather, Trump believes Iran interfered in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections to try to harm his odds in those contests, which he has already made clear would be a death penalty-eligible offense even for an American suspect.
Trump is aware of Iranian plots of his life, and though these were inspired by his own illegal assassination of Iranian leader Qasem Soleimani (as Soleimani was on his way to a peace conference Trump’s allies lured him to), Trump is as proud of that murder as any achievement of his political career and nevertheless treats Iran’s plans to end his life as unprovoked rather than foreseeable.
So far, every war has been temporary. No one of them lasts forever. Afghanistan was a mere twenty years or so. But that's not as temporary as the 30 Years War or Hundred Years War. Temporary can last a hell of a long time.
When Rome attacked Iran, under the First Triumvirate of the late Republic, it took them 250 years to accomplish regime change, and then unfortunately the new Sassanian regime was more competent than the old Parthian regime, so the war continued another 400 years until both sides were exhausted and the Arabs conquered all Iran and all the Mideastern territories of Rome.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he can neither confirm nor deny reports that Iran is using mine-strapped “Kamikaze dolphins,” following sparse reporting of their use last week. JFC! 🐬💥
Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and was the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. Trump can point to a squirrel. Half this country doesn't like that.
And that, ladies and gents, is why we're in this mess.
He had the temerity to believe that food, housing, healthcare, and opportunity should be standard for everyone. Of course, to conservatives this is heresy.
But his presidency was so booooooring! NPR would drone on and on and ON about how "the President is meeting with EU leaders today to blah blah the blah blah, and will then return to Washington to lobby Congress for his Health Care blahdeblahdeblah". I couldn't stand it. I wanted somebody to just shoot me.
I was sooo looking forward to a really boring Hilary Clinton administration. She's a good administrator who would have actually gotten things done, sans the daily drama,.
I used to wish more females had leadership positions as evidenced by women leaders in other countries until Noem, Bondi, MTG, and others were put into powerful positions. Now I just think old fools like Trump, Grassley should be put out to pasture.
If they want a colorful and entertaining president to fill their 24 news feed, then we need to really pass laws that curtail the President's actual power. Make him Head of State like King Charles who has no ability to make laws or policies for the government.
Precisely why the Media pushed and propped up Trump. Easy content. No more "god, this is so boring" press conferences. No reason for the populace to click or watch. With Trump they have ready-made content 24/7 with absolutely none of that work of "reporting" necessary.
Thats not all. We had perfectly workable agreement in writng with Iran, but because Trump is a racist nepo baby he decided to scrap it. That will have effect on many important agreements that the US might have with other countries who count on the US to maintain treaties. They now know a treaty may not last more than four years if the oligarchs decide to put a compliant total imbecile in office.
Michelle Obama has exquisite taste, which is exemplified in the gorgeous book, "The Look." I treated myself to a copy for my birthday present last year. Wonderful stories about her life too.
Thanks for the heads up. Colbert being cancelled by those CBS Trump cucks is yet another indignity we have to endure because of Hillary’s emails. I bring that up because if MAGA had been strangled in the crib, so to speak, back then, we wouldn’t be going through this horror show now
MAGA was birthed and nurtured by that fucker Reagan and his welfare queen dog whistle, his cutting of mental health funding, and his open favoritism of his rich friends.
Thom Hartmann did a bit on that this morning. He said that Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford were all on board building the Middle Class and continuing FDR's New Deal because it was good for the country, but when St. Ronny Raygun took over, the Republicans became the tools of the oligarchs, and the Middle Class were told, "Fuck off and die" and it's only gotten worse since, with them dismantling everything they can.
Thom has an on-going challenge to anyone who can tell him one piece of legislation in the last 45 years that was supported by the Rethuglicans that actually helped the poor or Middle Class. No takers because there isn't any.
It will always and forever be "National Airport" in DC to me. BTW my brother is a retired Navy and commercial airline pilot, and he hated flying out of National Airport and refuses to fly into it as a passenger.
Thanks Mary...I'll need to find Hartmans piece...I have often thought, name me one thing the Republican party has done to help the middle class. I cant think of a thing. 🤦♀️
We should have prosecuted Reagan for his illegal Iran Contra BS that directly went against Congress. Every Rethuglican presidency since has been a fktangle of tax cuts for the morbidly rich, needless wars for fun and profit, and sticking it to the minorities, gays, poor, women, and children. They really, really DGAF about the Constitution or us. If we smacked St. Ronny Raygun around for his shit, maybe none of this other crap would have happened. They lie, cheat, steal, murder -- whatever it takes to stay in power.
Ah the mid-stage of a salamander, that never finishes to a terrestrial form. They are only found in very cold lakes in Mexico in a certain geographical area.
I’m a year older and I have a cognitive test every 5 years, because I’m a widow w no children or brothers or sisters. I have many good friends who have permission to say something like “You seem to be missing stuff like nouns when you talk. Are you under a lot of stress or …?”
Because cognitive issues are not something that I can guarantee I would be able to diagnose by myself.
Oh, and I’m actually getting better at the drawing thing because I remember it from 5 years ago and can “see” it better🤣. Visual stuff is not my long suit.
I think Obama also qualifies as the first nerd President and I mean that in the most positive way. The ads where he is talking about Star Wars with Mark Hamill shows his love of cinema and science fiction. I can relate to him.
My father had dementia. The easiest way to keep him calm was to figure out where he was in his own mind and deal with him there. That’s exactly how his cabinet deals with Jabba. But my father didn’t have the nuclear codes.
Of course. That's why they send him out to perform for friendly crowds. How can these audiences laugh and clap? It's absolutely disgusting how stupid people can be.
The problem is that those "people" making decisions behind him are absolutely immoral, greedy bastards intent on turning the country into a fascist oligarchy, and they not mentally impaired.
Paraphasia, perseveration, confabulation, loss of train of thought, gait and balance disorders, how much more do we need to diagnose dementia - even at a distance?
Maybe Jeff, we should have listened to Trump early on when bragging about his intellect when he said “I have the best mental”. That should have cleared things up.
That’s right Mike. People tell you who they are if you just listen. And a lot of republicans did listen and had him pegged from the beginning… but gutless wonders they all were. And now here we are.
What happens if you put one up? I’m guessing need permission, right? (that question alone tells you how old I am… actually asking for permission?!?!?!!)
My sister in rural Montana has a stack of Trump "I did that" stickers and slaps them on every chance she gets. It has that picture of him with that stupid-ass grin. You know, that ONE shitty picture of him?
They should have used his beloved mug shot. You know, the one inside the passport cover that will guarantee you get the crappiest hotel rooms on your European vacation.
I believe we have entered Trump Invective Insensitivity Syndrome, whereby we have called MAGAs every derogatory term in existence to describe their lack of cognition and stupid, idiot, dumbass, shitforbrains, etc., have lost their impact through overuse and overexposure
Very roughly, after converting litres to gallons then changing pounds to dollars, here I Glasgow, Scotland it's just shy of $8 a gallon. Much more in rural areas.
However, its 275 miles fron Northern Scotland to Southern Scotland. When I drive from San Clemente to Las Vegas to see family its 288 miles. And there is no convenient, reliable public transportation.
Gas is always higher in NV. Premium usually hovers somewhere in the $4 range. High state gas tax. But we have no personal income tax so I'll take that anyday.
Yikes! Here in the Merrinack Valley of Massachusetts gas has gone up at least $1.40 (nearly a 50% increase in the last couple of months) for Regular. Diesel was $5.99 yesterday. I filled our CR-V yesterday, over 10 gallons, for $46.
I know that doesn’t come close to what other folks around the country are seeing, but it is taking a bite out of our retirement.
$7 for a loaf of ordinary bread here at the corner store. Nearly $7/gal for gas. A gallon of milk the same ($7). In (red) states where the minimum wage is still around $8/hour, many folks aren't going to survive -- especially with food stamps and Medicaid wiped out. Project 2025 dystopia.
Diesel is $7.99 a gallon in a Seattle suburb. Thank Goddess I have an electric car, but this is going to make everything else more expensive. Are we winning yet?
If the Democrats regain the House (and, I hope, the Senate), the newly elected and the old guard had better be prepared to work 24/7: they'll have two years to repair as much of the damage as possible, plus start actually charging the fucking criminals and bringing about a least a measure of justice.
it's unlikely that they'll be able to charge the criminals - referrals go to the regime's DoJ, which will do nothing.
If there are any criminal charges, the Dems in Congress will have to work with states. I'm thinking the Manhattan DA (Wall St/financial crimes) had better be prepared to get busy.
There y’all go trusting the Dems again. Folks, they have failed us on myriad levels. Yes, of course we vote for them because at least they have some sanity about passing particular measures that help the American people. But if you all think it’s gonna be a bloodbath when they get in there, think again; you’re about to be completely disappointed. They are being stuffed with cash by the lobbyists like the Republicans. They’re gonna tell us all to look the other way while they continue to return us to the “norms“ that never worked in the first place. I’m not getting my hopes up.
I think it would take an act of god to get above 60 Senate Dems... For the next 2 years it is going to be a holding action, because any Democratic legislation which does get passed is going to be vetoed by the Orange Idiot.
I have great fear that the fascists propping up Trump are planning to rig the elections. Trump wont stop whining about how the election are all rigged in spite of many bipartisan investigations who find nearly no election tampering, and when they do, its usually Republicans.
He’s truly bugfuck nuts. I’m thinking he’s jealous because the Obama Presidential Center and Library will open on Juneteenth, and Obama is getting the attention. Love the photos. More, please.
Yeah. Just like today when he revived the Presidential Physical Fitness Award/physical fitness test in America’s schools - as he falls asleep during pressers and can’t even walk through a golf course.
Every day feels like Groundhog Day with TRump. Even more horrifying is, that the mad bastard is given free rein to say crazy shit with no pushback from SO MANY PEOPLE. The media has shit the bed, Congress has given The Convicted Felon all the power they're supposed to use to keep him in check, and we the people just have to sit back and watch in horror. It's fKiNg infuriating!🤬
He's a senile old vulgarian who was just granted $1 billion by the Republicans in Congress for his marble shithouse ballroom/bunker. Saw on The Bulwark that he's hired a designer to re-do all the historic public golf courses in DC, plus the reflecting pool, while planning to raise green fees to $150-$200 per round, beyond the reach of the masses.
Including the one where he had all the material from the destruction of the East Wing dumped, which has now been found to be full of lots of different kinds of toxic waste?
Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures that forever capture a moment. They remind us of the best and most important connections in our lives. May you know the peace of their love…always.
Stop being intimidated by the imaginary world of our Faux King POTUS the 1st, the GREATEST LEADER of ALL TIME, and the executive producer of an AMAZINGLY SUCCESSFUL reality TV show, "TRUMP 47, King of the WORLD. It's far beyond the time this fool loses all his power.
In Trump's fever dreams he schedules the fabulous episodes for his TV show. But now, several are running far beyond their allotted time;
"Epstein Who I Barely Knew", "Iran who I Defeated before I Began," "Oil Prices that went Up for No GOOD Reason" and "Affordability".
But don't worry America, HE and only HE is fixing this issue. Soon we'll just worry about Seashells and Windmills when we should be worried about our country that is being taken over by American billionaire oligarchs.
In that very same rambling speech, “I Have a Dream That No President Has Had to Take an ‘Am I a Cuckoo?’ Test,” Balm-Bam Trump inserted a math problem to freshen things up. I was surprised and welcomed it. In essence, he threw out a bunch of numbers (with lots of nines in them) and multiplication, division, and so forth—I lose track somewhere and start thinking I’ve got early signs of dementia—but then he doesn’t tell us the actual answer but boasts that the doctors are impressed. It was diverting.
Jeff, I think you are wrong in your analysis of Trump’s walk. If you watch again, as BamBam gets off the plane, he adjusts his waistband, which made me wonder if he’s losing weight. This would explain how he’s being blown off course.
I read on another Substack (don’t remember who) that when Margie refused to back down about the Epstein files, she received a note that harm could come to her son for her not being loyal to Bams. I’d heard other tales like that—I guess that’s how he’s been able to keep folks in line. In all seriousness, who do you report something like that to, given how corrupt LE is these days?
He is clearly out of his mind and yet, his people just go about their business. I'll never understand how you can ignore his obvious decline. And I love that the felon is being prepped for a blood bath November. If things dont start to turn around, we are royally screwed....we already are, but I'm hoping.
Oh, I love your posts in honor of spouse and daughter. What an exemplary family life! Thank you, Jeff. And thank you for keeping the fire lit beneath so many of us who refuse to surrender our brains and moral compass to the orange orangutan and his ministries of silly everything.
Jeff, thank you so much for sharing your Claudia photos and memories with us. I've loved them all, but I think this one of Katie and Claudia from last year is my favorite.
Damn-we are so sick of this administration! Thanks for throwing humor into this deranged outfit! Pics of Claudia and Kate (I think I recall her name??!) are beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
If his walking from the helicopter or plane (that never crashes) gets much worse, a limousine will be pulled up for him to enter immediately. Bonus for us: no ridiculous “presser” on the tarmac. Another plus for him: less of a chance for him to a) lose his train of thought, and b) change his mind in mid thought.
They pretty much do that with the limo already. After he walked past it & had to be retrieved during his 1st term (yes, he had dementia back then).
What I'm waiting for is him to go TIMBER! He's falling asleep WHILE STANDING. He did it again Mon, when the insider trader in charge of the SBA or whatever was speaking at the Small Business summit or whatever.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit —
Piss-Drunk Pete can haz opinion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/05/hegseth-briefing-iran-strait-hormuz-ceasefire/
"U.S. mission to reopen Strait of Hormuz will be temporary, Hegseth says"
I don't even know what that means, 'temporary.' I thought Donny was blowing Iran off the face of the earth.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Jeff. While you share with us, I bet others are having the same experience as I am: thinking about those I've lost. My parents and few siblings, of course. My dear friend who succumbed to TWO cancers and who bestowed my nickname "Miselle" to me.
And yesterday was the first anniversary of the death of our good friend, Tom. He started as our personal trainer at our local park district. Didn't drink, ate healthy, exercised daily, was a loving husband and father, and most impressively quietly extensively volunteered in our community. And yet, he got a brain tumor.
Keeping those names in the minds of others keeps those we've lost forever alive in us. I'm not expressing this well, but I think everyone knows what I mean.
Hugs to you.
Unfortunately, having a healthy lifestyle doesn't guarantee good health or longevity. I think so much of our destiny is in our genes. It helps explain why not all smokers get lung cancer, everyone obese doesn't get diabetes and so on. Trump's parents lived to be 88 and 92. That was way back before all the food and health warnings. I think that's why he's almost 80 despite his bad health habits.
Well, THAT'S depressing......having it around for another ten years or so! 😳
If he gets to hang around a long time in prison, I'm ok with it.
Yeah he has longevity in his genes- dammit!!! As my mom used to say- No self- respecting germ would light on him.
Love that!!! I may have to borrow that!❤️
As Neil deGrasse Tyson pointed out - all of those ppl in history whose life expectancies were around 30-40 yrs - WERE EATING ORGANICALLY if you think about it 😁😅 (pre-science)
That statistic always annoyed me. If you calculated the life expectancy for males once they made it through childhood they often live quite long. It’s children that catch all those diseases or have accidents while women die in childbirth that bring the average life expedient so low.
Yep, and now measles, and even TUBERCULOSIS is making a huge comeback.
Yes. before toxic sprays were developed and poisoned crops and grains
I think you’re right Deborah. My wife’s grandparents lived into their late 80’s and early 90’s and smoked till the day they died and did not die of lung cancer. And we ran into a nice gal in her 40’s at a vacation rental that was eating “healthy” food for years to try to avoid things like cancer. She ate broccoli religiously and she hated broccoli. She said she was just diagnosed with breast cancer and was in despair partly because she had tried to do everything “right”. She said “I ate broccoli” followed by “I hate broccoli!” And “Look where it got me”. It reminded me of The Mary Tyler Moore Show where her boss says “You’ve got spunk!”…
“I hate spunk!”
I guess we usually never know when our number is up. Might as well eat cheese cake and enjoy life.
At the age of 99 Betty White was asked what her secret was for living so long and she replied “I never ate anything green”. That about says it all.
Had to laugh at Betty White! Do you know what else she said:
‘Why do people say “grow some balls!” Balls are weak and sensitive. If you really want to get tough grow a vagina. Those things take a pounding!’
She was something else.
She was a hoot!
Yes but were they coherent and of sound mind? Did they know what year it was or where they lived?
His father didn’t.
Trump’s father was drifting off into the abyss years before he died. Donald is following the same path, but given that 49% of the voters chose to re-elect Trump, he’s far more dangerous to himself and others than even his arguably horrible father. It’s time to put Trump, Chuck Grassley and Sue Colins in a home.
Or jail.
How I hope that Maine rids itself of Collins. It is time!
Said it before, and I'm saying it again. There was widespread vote caging; secret purging of voter rolls to the tune of tens of thousands of votes (voters didn't know until they arrived at the polls); provisional ballots tossed because reasons; mail-in ballots tossed on questionable technicalities; rules changed after voting had begun; and other GOP dirty tricks. There were stark, measurable anomalies among the totals (e.g., on the same ballot, votes for Dems down the line, except for Drump; huge numbers of bullet ballots), possibly due to interference by Elon's hacker posse. Mark Elias has said that if every legal ballot had been counted, Harris would have won.
Bottom line: we have no idea how many people actually voted or didn't, and what the results actually were.
They were nuts too.
Because only the good die young. The bad are given extra time to turn their shit around and fly straight, alas, so many never achieve that.
"So many choose never to attempt that." That's actually closer to the truth, in the case of Rump and those of similar inclinations.
The seemingly random or at least capricious way we lose good people while those terrible destructive miscreants stick around drives me nuts. I knew someone similar to your friend Tom who ate right (vegetarian) and lived a clean lifestyle but then died of melanoma. Geez.
So tired of BAD ppl getting away with BAD sh*t… WHY IS THIS TOLERATED? Oh that’s right - when ‘kindness is weakness’ became a thing… GeezUS
The real problem is the asymmetry between good and evil. Good follows rules, obeys laws, has ethics and morals, resists base impulses, tries to be benevolent on a wider scale beyond itself. Evil does the opposite of all those things, and evil's scope is exceedingly narrow since self-interest is its defining characteristic.
And if evil gets ahead of the curve, good is forever caught on its back foot… SICK OF THIS!
But good keeps plowing ahead and will never cease, as long as there are enough who believe right matters
It’s the good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere syndrome we’re living through on a leadership scale.
The fact that he was musing a few months back about whether he's going to heaven is indicative of how delusional he is. His whole life has been one long episode of cheating, lying, victimizing others, and unrelenting selfishness. If heaven exists as it has been represented as a place for the deserving, there is no fucking way he would ever get there. And yet he cannot see that. He had better hope the entrance criteria is a lot different than we've been told.
BRILLAINT analogy!
Your nickname is beautiful. Our friends called me “Catheter” because I had fleeting thoughts of becoming a doctor. They are gone now, but what I wouldn’t give to hear “Catheter” again.
I know. I can hear her voice when I type "miselle".
I know exactly what you mean. I lost my husband, Tommy, two years ago on Thanksgiving. The memories keep me going.
I would like Hegseth to be temporary
As in 86?
You can say the whole thing Mike. 86 47. Just don't do it with sea shells.
How do we know those shells didn't arrange themselves that way? Even shells may be getting woke
good one!
* Note to the Comey defense team…
As in getting booted back to wingnut welfare
aka the Murdoch Lie Machine
ASAP, please!
Watch it Mike. We like having you here
😂😂😂
That is "Hagueseth" to those in the know, as you are now...
If only! We call him "Kegsbreath" around here.
He's already been there too long to be temporary. Of course, a week would be too long.
😂😂😂
1. Once Iran is blown off the face of the earth will there be any need to monitor the Strait? Will there even be a Strait?
2. One of my spawn attended UCONN. When I visited we drove to Mystic and ate at The Shipwrights Daughter. Truly one of the best meals I’ve had the pleasure to enjoy.
I know, right?
All great places in Connecticut to visit. Mystic is a trip on Christmas Eve if you can still feel your face outside.
If I go to Mystic I want a 20-something Julia Roberts to serve my pizza
...and I want the world to survive mankind's vicious onslaughts--but we can dream, right?
Your dream is slightly more important than mine
was a good movie, Mystic Pizza
Visited there as a child. My grandparents lived in Waterbury. 60 years ago...
I recommend Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden too, if you like to hike.
Is that where Mystic Pizza originated? Didn't the movie replicate a real restaurant in Mystic?
Yep. The restaurant opened in 1973 and the movie came out in 1988. The movie was actually filmed in Mystic as well.
You guys got me, too late in the day but it does jump out at you when you know about it.
Hubby and I are going for a day trip there- just to eat- sounds divine‼️
You won’t be disappointed.
Kay, Any chance it’s from the movie Mystic Pizza? Big film in it’s day.
Restaurant came first then the movie. Apparently the screenwriter had vacationed in the area and decided the restaurant was a good fit for her story
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-the-king-is-rotting-flesh-we-can-all-smell-it
"He does not have the mental sharpness it takes to lead the country."
Fifty-nine percent. Not a poll — a diagnosis nobody's been permitted to officially file. The Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos survey found 55 percent believe the dementia-addled despot lacks the physical health to serve. Sixty-seven percent say he doesn't carefully consider important decisions. He called his press secretary "Kellyanne." He said "Iceland" when he meant "Greenland" four times in Davos. The bruises on his hands keep appearing; the explanation keeps changing.
Ain't he a pearl
He can ID a squirrel!
He knowed when he saw one
Just like he has done
To each Teen USA pageant girl
👏👏👏👏
That’s hysterical…
The Straits of Schrödinger are a dimension of sight and sound, where everything is true and false at the same time.
And of course, for Maladministration 2.0, all that needs to be done in any interview is win the moment. Owing to Murc's Law, whatever they say needs not even be consistent with what's said in the same paragraph. Just has to win that instant; the servile press will type what is said uncritically, and we careen on to the next crisis.
There are still 3 out of 10 people who think he's just fine, but they probably couldn't find Iran on a map.
Undoubtedly the same folks who couldn't find their own butt with both hands and a map.
They might call it Greenland
"Iran? No I'm still here!"
Khamenei times Ayatollah ya?
They couldn't find the USA on a map either
They couldn't find their asses with both hands.😂😂
…or a picture of a squirrel on a cognitive test…
Schrodinger's Strait
In its indeterminate state
Because those two tools
Are reckless fools
Is now Hegseth-Trumpgate
👏👏👏👏
I am officially renaming the strait.
As a disgraced Guardie major his men were so alarmed at his batshit drunken Nazi behavior they reported him, and he resigned rather than face the court martial coming his way. His grudge list was longer than Trump's, and he's chewed the military to rags. I hope that his version of God is accurate, because that man will be granted eternal life in the lava pit.
Is it all about market manipulation? Why the fuck aren't they figuring out a way to end this thing and just lie and say "we win!" They lie about absolutely everything, so just call it already!
Yes, I worked for several years on the International Monetary Market in the Mercantile Exchange. Markets could swing wildly on important international political news.
I heard a financial commentator note that the irrational Market Manipulation Monday rebounds for the DOW and S&P are caused by algorithms that do not fully engage with human reality. It's not a reliable barometer of the financial health of the nation or world. Just a casino where the house always wins.
"Just a casino where the house always wins." Trump Casino on line one.
A casino not run by a dumbass screw up
Yea, I believe there has been changes since I was younger
He said we won too often, like the boy who cried wolf. So now he has to throw something else at the wall and hope it sticks.
It's also all about the EPSTEIN FILES. That is the only fking reason we are at "don't-you-dare-call-it-a-war."
I subscribe to Seth Abramson's substack and he recently had a very informative post about how DT's history shows why he is personally so fixated on Iran.
(may need to subscribe to read)
https://sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-second-iran-war-continues-there?r=4wf1wt&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Sidebar: Donald Trump Was Always Going to Go to War with Iran
America is at war with Iran almost entirely because of Trump’s personal whims, and not due to any national security concerns America faced from Iran when Trump first took office in 2017; at that point, the Iran nuclear deal President Barack Obama had negotiated (the JCPOA) had gotten Iranian nuclear enrichment down to zero.
Rather, Trump believes Iran interfered in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 elections to try to harm his odds in those contests, which he has already made clear would be a death penalty-eligible offense even for an American suspect.
Trump is aware of Iranian plots of his life, and though these were inspired by his own illegal assassination of Iranian leader Qasem Soleimani (as Soleimani was on his way to a peace conference Trump’s allies lured him to), Trump is as proud of that murder as any achievement of his political career and nevertheless treats Iran’s plans to end his life as unprovoked rather than foreseeable.
Jesus H on a crutch!
Sweet photo of your girls Jeff <3
So far, every war has been temporary. No one of them lasts forever. Afghanistan was a mere twenty years or so. But that's not as temporary as the 30 Years War or Hundred Years War. Temporary can last a hell of a long time.
Pan to the extended ceasefire in Korea that still costs us billions as overseers.
When Rome attacked Iran, under the First Triumvirate of the late Republic, it took them 250 years to accomplish regime change, and then unfortunately the new Sassanian regime was more competent than the old Parthian regime, so the war continued another 400 years until both sides were exhausted and the Arabs conquered all Iran and all the Mideastern territories of Rome.
Yep. Rome and the Persians really had a thing going there.
Hell, Rethuglicans are still fighting the Civil War.
And strangely enough they changed sides!
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he can neither confirm nor deny reports that Iran is using mine-strapped “Kamikaze dolphins,” following sparse reporting of their use last week. JFC! 🐬💥
Redux from last month:
The Secretary of Bragging and Booze
With the Christian nationalist tattoos
Has braggadocio and bluster
But can't seem to muster
Enough to open the Strait of Hormuz
Your Best!
Oldie but goodie.
😂👏👏👏👏👏
Temporary means until Dear Leader comes up with another idiotic word salad that means nothing but all the minions try to explain anyway 😵💫
I so love the pics you’re sharing of Ms. Spouse Claudia. She was beautiful. More of this please
All great places in Connecticut to visit. Mystic is a trip on Christmas Eve if you cannot feel your face outside.
What kind of world do we live in when we have to read what opinion is from Drunk Pete
He's just a " blip ".
Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and was the first Black president of the Harvard Law Review. Trump can point to a squirrel. Half this country doesn't like that.
And that, ladies and gents, is why we're in this mess.
Thanks for pointing that out. I seriously miss the intellect and decency Obama brought to the office.
His decency and lack of daily scandal was matched only by the right's determination to manufacture them at any cost.
Lack of a scandal? Are you unaware that he once wore a tan suit?
President Obama was so effortlessly elegant. He wasn't lumbering along like the last dinosaur before the great extinction.
The nerve!
🤣🤣🤣
Let's not forget the Grey Poupon Incident of 2009!
🤣
Remember that Mike… it was all over the news‼️I could listen to President Obama for hours- now it’s … on mute quickly 🫤
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Isnt that the truth….. the right should be ashamed of their greed and racism.
Should is the operative word. These bastards are the ghosts of 250 years past. I say seashell the shit outta them!
They are in office due to the support billionaire oligarchs who need a compliant executive. Just like Russia.
Should be..
I would how about instead of racism you learn graceism?
They have no shame!😡
He had the temerity to believe that food, housing, healthcare, and opportunity should be standard for everyone. Of course, to conservatives this is heresy.
It sure is! The states that refused free federal money to expand Medicaid for their people were mostly the old Confederacy.
Medicaid expansion might help people of any color. That’s was its problem, it might benefit the wrong population.
Yes, the tan suit scandal was worth a week’s coverage on Fox
Exactly… crazy wasn’t it‼️
And those beautiful, complete, sentences!
But his presidency was so booooooring! NPR would drone on and on and ON about how "the President is meeting with EU leaders today to blah blah the blah blah, and will then return to Washington to lobby Congress for his Health Care blahdeblahdeblah". I couldn't stand it. I wanted somebody to just shoot me.
God, I miss him.
The good old days..when we didn’t live in constant fear of what our government was going to do next. *sigh
I was sooo looking forward to a really boring Hilary Clinton administration. She's a good administrator who would have actually gotten things done, sans the daily drama,.
Wouldn't have gone down like that at all. The MAGAs would have been ungovernable. They hated her far more than they hated Obama.
We need to learn to do that, to be ungovernable under Trump. We're too rational.
I used to wish more females had leadership positions as evidenced by women leaders in other countries until Noem, Bondi, MTG, and others were put into powerful positions. Now I just think old fools like Trump, Grassley should be put out to pasture.
I read much less political news during the last administration. I kept up with current events, mind you, just without Pepto.
If they want a colorful and entertaining president to fill their 24 news feed, then we need to really pass laws that curtail the President's actual power. Make him Head of State like King Charles who has no ability to make laws or policies for the government.
Right there with you George! I always will remember how genuine he was especially during school shootings- now can you see Trump doing that? I don’t 🫤
Precisely why the Media pushed and propped up Trump. Easy content. No more "god, this is so boring" press conferences. No reason for the populace to click or watch. With Trump they have ready-made content 24/7 with absolutely none of that work of "reporting" necessary.
Thats not all. We had perfectly workable agreement in writng with Iran, but because Trump is a racist nepo baby he decided to scrap it. That will have effect on many important agreements that the US might have with other countries who count on the US to maintain treaties. They now know a treaty may not last more than four years if the oligarchs decide to put a compliant total imbecile in office.
Exactly-the cost of this racism is killing America.
About the power of the oligarchy…
I long for the days of the tan suit scandal.
Same. And he wore it well.
Bamz looked fooooiiine in his tan suit. That is what really pissed the GOP off.
Yes, Jon Stewart showed a montage of every prior president in ...a tan suit while in office.
And Michele wearing sleeveless tops.
Michelle Obama has exquisite taste, which is exemplified in the gorgeous book, "The Look." I treated myself to a copy for my birthday present last year. Wonderful stories about her life too.
I should get that for my friend. She's a big Michelle Obama fan.
Instead we get “tan shoes and pink shoe laces, a polka dot shirt and man oh man ! “
Intellect and decency. Well said.
True Susan…but I had to draw the line at his tan suit. Fox Notnews lost their marbles over that (what marbles they had left).
What I’d pay to see that nice tan suit again…
Oh man.... same here. 😭
Don't forget. Obama is on Colbert tonight.
Thanks for the heads up. Colbert being cancelled by those CBS Trump cucks is yet another indignity we have to endure because of Hillary’s emails. I bring that up because if MAGA had been strangled in the crib, so to speak, back then, we wouldn’t be going through this horror show now
MAGA was birthed and nurtured by that fucker Reagan and his welfare queen dog whistle, his cutting of mental health funding, and his open favoritism of his rich friends.
Thom Hartmann did a bit on that this morning. He said that Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford were all on board building the Middle Class and continuing FDR's New Deal because it was good for the country, but when St. Ronny Raygun took over, the Republicans became the tools of the oligarchs, and the Middle Class were told, "Fuck off and die" and it's only gotten worse since, with them dismantling everything they can.
Thom has an on-going challenge to anyone who can tell him one piece of legislation in the last 45 years that was supported by the Rethuglicans that actually helped the poor or Middle Class. No takers because there isn't any.
The fact that they have an aircraft carrier and that airport named after him burns me. He was a racist, elitist asshole.
It will always and forever be "National Airport" in DC to me. BTW my brother is a retired Navy and commercial airline pilot, and he hated flying out of National Airport and refuses to fly into it as a passenger.
And mentally lazy, until he lost it in entirety.
Thanks Mary...I'll need to find Hartmans piece...I have often thought, name me one thing the Republican party has done to help the middle class. I cant think of a thing. 🤦♀️
Bingo.
Don’t ever forget the misogynistic damage that Rush Limbaugh did while FOX was getting off the ground. He added fuel to the fire.
I hope all the evil shit he did and said is adding fuel to his fire now
He and Scalia would be lava hot tub buddies if there actually were a hell.
Yep, many MAGAs would benefit from proper mental health care.
We tolerated them long before they were MAGA. It's our fault we let them flourish through our benign neglect, so now we must suffer for our error.
We should have prosecuted Reagan for his illegal Iran Contra BS that directly went against Congress. Every Rethuglican presidency since has been a fktangle of tax cuts for the morbidly rich, needless wars for fun and profit, and sticking it to the minorities, gays, poor, women, and children. They really, really DGAF about the Constitution or us. If we smacked St. Ronny Raygun around for his shit, maybe none of this other crap would have happened. They lie, cheat, steal, murder -- whatever it takes to stay in power.
I hope MS News picks him up as a regular.
I'm almost Trump's age and I know my animals!
I say “asshole” whenever I point to his sphincter-shaped mouth, and my MD declares my cognition to be 100%
I have wondered, from time to time, how he does that weird thing with his mouth. The lips open vertically on a narrow plane. It's very strange.
Ditto, even learning new ones!
Axolotl! ( I learned from 4-year-old grandson.)
I have a pink axolotl neck pillow!!!
Oooooh, axolotls are the absolute bomb for that generation! They're the new T-Rex for little boys. Where did that even COME from?
Ah the mid-stage of a salamander, that never finishes to a terrestrial form. They are only found in very cold lakes in Mexico in a certain geographical area.
I’m three whole weeks older and I saw a squirrel in my yard that would blow his tiny mind. It’s a reverse skunk.striped black and white 🤯🤯. Funky.
Fox squirrel
I’m a year older and I have a cognitive test every 5 years, because I’m a widow w no children or brothers or sisters. I have many good friends who have permission to say something like “You seem to be missing stuff like nouns when you talk. Are you under a lot of stress or …?”
Because cognitive issues are not something that I can guarantee I would be able to diagnose by myself.
Oh, and I’m actually getting better at the drawing thing because I remember it from 5 years ago and can “see” it better🤣. Visual stuff is not my long suit.
Trump could pick out a picture of a squirrel on a test but he doesn't know the impact an oil shortage has on the price of gas.
I think Obama also qualifies as the first nerd President and I mean that in the most positive way. The ads where he is talking about Star Wars with Mark Hamill shows his love of cinema and science fiction. I can relate to him.
And that half the country wouldn’t vote for a biracial woman!!!
Oh we know
way too many, for sure. the rest are wealthy and don't like paying taxes.
My father had dementia. The easiest way to keep him calm was to figure out where he was in his own mind and deal with him there. That’s exactly how his cabinet deals with Jabba. But my father didn’t have the nuclear codes.
Of course. That's why they send him out to perform for friendly crowds. How can these audiences laugh and clap? It's absolutely disgusting how stupid people can be.
Exactly. Perform. Not govern
The problem is that those "people" making decisions behind him are absolutely immoral, greedy bastards intent on turning the country into a fascist oligarchy, and they not mentally impaired.
Paraphasia, perseveration, confabulation, loss of train of thought, gait and balance disorders, how much more do we need to diagnose dementia - even at a distance?
Reagan wasn't even that bad at the end of his term.
Well, Nancy was effectively President then.
Or Nancy's astrologer
That’s right. Bush was “out of the loop”.
And who is now? Miller? Vought? Wiles? Lutnick? Someone else?
I wish Hegseth
Exactly, so per Brady below, who is effectively president right now?
His wife the floor lamp won't even let him touch her. My guesss is Stephen Miller.
Some functional GOP person with cojones should suffice
Well, if you’re going to start talking unicorns…
Even the Nazis had Operation Valkyrie, so in at least one respect they were saner and more rational than this regime of dangerous psychos
If he has the nuclear codes, I am sure he doesn’t know where he put them.
They are in the ‘football’.
The one that Tom Brady gave to him Stephen? I hope that’s where he thinks they are.
Remind me again, what shape is a football?…
Let’s hope he doesn’t remember the codes.
He doesn’t remember the codes. But his handlers do.
Maybe Jeff, we should have listened to Trump early on when bragging about his intellect when he said “I have the best mental”. That should have cleared things up.
We did!
That’s right Mike. People tell you who they are if you just listen. And a lot of republicans did listen and had him pegged from the beginning… but gutless wonders they all were. And now here we are.
Gas at suburban station in Vegas this morning- $6.29 premium. Was $5.24 about 10 days ago. Thanks Donnie. 🤮
Anyone else remember when Republicans went around plastering Biden "I DID THAT" stickers at gas pumps when gas was up to like three dollars a gallon?
I bought Trump ones.
What happens if you put one up? I’m guessing need permission, right? (that question alone tells you how old I am… actually asking for permission?!?!?!!)
I don’t know. But - I intend to be subtle and sneaky about it.
I've seen them.
My sister in rural Montana has a stack of Trump "I did that" stickers and slaps them on every chance she gets. It has that picture of him with that stupid-ass grin. You know, that ONE shitty picture of him?
All trump’s pictures are shitty
They should have used his beloved mug shot. You know, the one inside the passport cover that will guarantee you get the crappiest hotel rooms on your European vacation.
And servers will spit in your food and drink.
I DO! Where are the Trump stickers???
I actually saw a Donny-themed 'I did that' sticker on a local pump a couple of week ago. someone put one up, and someone else tried to tear it off
Excellent. I’ll find out where to get some and slather all of my redneck Missouri county with them. 😂😂
Susan Niemann I just love that idea!!
Susan I didn’t like buying them on Amazon, but once in a while I have to. I keep them in both cars at the ready while shopping.
https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Stickers-Funny-Different-Patterns/dp/B09GKN99JW/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1XKI4C1YBR8S1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.S1Juu2igQeB-1hti9bXWzcV7cm2_J_MXpBs5PZAfh39i9h0X0fX7-Dvs0xImCoTZrPUhL-fQtfrX7v4lsmIT0AI514cMpJp6yWvYacOwafVerp1gfVuG1FdfHg4qf-4bigEdwlhA9X2qekBEecMFIjm9Llf_z9GW_DmGeSxtf9dqtaBpxv2y7h4LnTI0bHrip71qeMhfvjAtiBxOOsLzcw.e3YbEMc3D010FA9ph99aYTV2FiAlFIOgnxCH9-oo8TQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=trump+i+did+that+stickers&qid=1777991211&sprefix=trump+%2Caps%2C178&sr=8-1
I wonder if they make
“I Did What?” Stickers
I wish they had "MAGA Did That" stickers. More direct. Made so they're impossible to get off. Troll the fuck out of MAGA.
How about "I didn't vote for this. Did you?"
Excellent idea. I’ll look for those because the internet is a vast shopping emporium. 😜
If you don’t do Amazon, Etsy has them also:
https://www.etsy.com/market/trump_i_did_that_stickers
Google "Trump, I did that" and you can buy them on online.
Just google it. I think mine came from Etsy.
YES!!!👏👏👏
Poor MAGATS… the truth hurts and they believe if they take down a Donny-themed “I did that” sticker, no one will ever know it WAS him 🤦♀️🤦♀️
maga can't handle the truth
There fewer and fewer of them. Still 3 out of ten, but they are figuring it out.
I posted one in response to a friend's meme of a gas station sign that said "Bro. Just walk". Her reply? "You're very narrow-minded about things".
🤦♀️
I got mine on Etsy
Amazon
On Amazon.
Repubs are so childish.
You insult non MAGA children...
Yes, I do. So let's do that again. TRUMP DID THAT.
JFC! In Philly it's not quite $5. I may buy a horse. 🤣
Don't do it. we're dealing with enough horse s#!t already.
😂😂😂 Horse sh1t, pig sh1t…virtually any kind of sh1t (including 🐂💩) is way less offensive than the 🍊🤡🐖y sh1t spewed each and every day
and 10,000 times more useful than trumpshit!
Even his verbal emanations can fertilize 40 acres. Imagine what his diaper could do
If it didn't irremediably poison all 40 acres!
arne link Hah hah hah hah hah hah hah
Wouldn't that solve our fertilizer problem, too?
Good point.
🤣🤣🤣
Now THAT is funny!!
Good one Arnie!
Do the MAGAs with their oversized, small-dick energy trucks actually know why the price of fuel is so high? My guess is no
I would NOT want to fill up a monster truck right now. 🤦♀️
Well, it's an opportunity for those dumbshits to blame Joe Biden
They are still blaming Biden for everything. They are stupid.
I believe we have entered Trump Invective Insensitivity Syndrome, whereby we have called MAGAs every derogatory term in existence to describe their lack of cognition and stupid, idiot, dumbass, shitforbrains, etc., have lost their impact through overuse and overexposure
I just call them MAGAts (maggots) because that's what they are.
No argument there
Possible disagreement here. The well-beloved author of this column has managed to coin a few new terms!
Very roughly, after converting litres to gallons then changing pounds to dollars, here I Glasgow, Scotland it's just shy of $8 a gallon. Much more in rural areas.
Loving my EV more every day.
I almost went for one last summer but thought I'd wait till they were a bit cheaper. Oh well...!
YES!!!!Me too!!
However, its 275 miles fron Northern Scotland to Southern Scotland. When I drive from San Clemente to Las Vegas to see family its 288 miles. And there is no convenient, reliable public transportation.
Lordy. That is dreadful.
Who would have thought that Trump would become a champion of the Green New Deal?
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-losing-a-second-war
😂😂😂😂🐎🐪
Gas is always higher in NV. Premium usually hovers somewhere in the $4 range. High state gas tax. But we have no personal income tax so I'll take that anyday.
I'd check on the price of oats. Fertilizer is going up in price too. Its all one thing and sucks.
In IL, regular gas is $4.99 now!
Yikes! Here in the Merrinack Valley of Massachusetts gas has gone up at least $1.40 (nearly a 50% increase in the last couple of months) for Regular. Diesel was $5.99 yesterday. I filled our CR-V yesterday, over 10 gallons, for $46.
I know that doesn’t come close to what other folks around the country are seeing, but it is taking a bite out of our retirement.
Hedge your bets on your retirement accounts! Buy trump crypto! A safe haven if ever there was one, right? Right? Hello?
And for what? 😝😡
To pay your insurance premiums, silly! And then food, and with what’s left, food.
This is only the most obvious sign of Trumpflation.
True. Our grocery bill is rising relentlessly each week, even buying the same items.
$7 for a loaf of ordinary bread here at the corner store. Nearly $7/gal for gas. A gallon of milk the same ($7). In (red) states where the minimum wage is still around $8/hour, many folks aren't going to survive -- especially with food stamps and Medicaid wiped out. Project 2025 dystopia.
Yes!
Good! Maybe people will start using less and stay home.
Oh yuk!!!
Diesel is $7.99 a gallon in a Seattle suburb. Thank Goddess I have an electric car, but this is going to make everything else more expensive. Are we winning yet?
The war of stupid over sane is winning big time…. sorry to say!
It's past time for the pendulum to swing left, and when it does it had better be a wrecking ball.
If the Democrats regain the House (and, I hope, the Senate), the newly elected and the old guard had better be prepared to work 24/7: they'll have two years to repair as much of the damage as possible, plus start actually charging the fucking criminals and bringing about a least a measure of justice.
it's unlikely that they'll be able to charge the criminals - referrals go to the regime's DoJ, which will do nothing.
If there are any criminal charges, the Dems in Congress will have to work with states. I'm thinking the Manhattan DA (Wall St/financial crimes) had better be prepared to get busy.
California is already working on it, too.
And there's always impeachment for cabinet members.
There y’all go trusting the Dems again. Folks, they have failed us on myriad levels. Yes, of course we vote for them because at least they have some sanity about passing particular measures that help the American people. But if you all think it’s gonna be a bloodbath when they get in there, think again; you’re about to be completely disappointed. They are being stuffed with cash by the lobbyists like the Republicans. They’re gonna tell us all to look the other way while they continue to return us to the “norms“ that never worked in the first place. I’m not getting my hopes up.
I think it would take an act of god to get above 60 Senate Dems... For the next 2 years it is going to be a holding action, because any Democratic legislation which does get passed is going to be vetoed by the Orange Idiot.
Yup. We’ll be lucky to keep the Senate
Charging criminals may take a while. Trump and Blanche will still be calling the shots at the Department of Retribution.
From your lips, etc.
I have great fear that the fascists propping up Trump are planning to rig the elections. Trump wont stop whining about how the election are all rigged in spite of many bipartisan investigations who find nearly no election tampering, and when they do, its usually Republicans.
The old guard needs to step aside and let the new guard do the work of holding all the lying grifters accountable.
no dem neoliberals please
Totally agree Ann! “You get an indictment and you get an indictment…everybody gets an indictment!” Please!
He’s truly bugfuck nuts. I’m thinking he’s jealous because the Obama Presidential Center and Library will open on Juneteenth, and Obama is getting the attention. Love the photos. More, please.
He would be very jealous if he had any awareness of what is going on.
True. I doubt he can even read well.
He Can READ??
😂🤣
You mean “at all” right Kim?
Yeah. Just like today when he revived the Presidential Physical Fitness Award/physical fitness test in America’s schools - as he falls asleep during pressers and can’t even walk through a golf course.
Every day feels like Groundhog Day with TRump. Even more horrifying is, that the mad bastard is given free rein to say crazy shit with no pushback from SO MANY PEOPLE. The media has shit the bed, Congress has given The Convicted Felon all the power they're supposed to use to keep him in check, and we the people just have to sit back and watch in horror. It's fKiNg infuriating!🤬
He's a senile old vulgarian who was just granted $1 billion by the Republicans in Congress for his marble shithouse ballroom/bunker. Saw on The Bulwark that he's hired a designer to re-do all the historic public golf courses in DC, plus the reflecting pool, while planning to raise green fees to $150-$200 per round, beyond the reach of the masses.
Including the one where he had all the material from the destruction of the East Wing dumped, which has now been found to be full of lots of different kinds of toxic waste?
This is OUTRAGEOUS!!! UGH! 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡
Thank you for sharing the beautiful pictures that forever capture a moment. They remind us of the best and most important connections in our lives. May you know the peace of their love…always.
Stop being intimidated by the imaginary world of our Faux King POTUS the 1st, the GREATEST LEADER of ALL TIME, and the executive producer of an AMAZINGLY SUCCESSFUL reality TV show, "TRUMP 47, King of the WORLD. It's far beyond the time this fool loses all his power.
In Trump's fever dreams he schedules the fabulous episodes for his TV show. But now, several are running far beyond their allotted time;
"Epstein Who I Barely Knew", "Iran who I Defeated before I Began," "Oil Prices that went Up for No GOOD Reason" and "Affordability".
But don't worry America, HE and only HE is fixing this issue. Soon we'll just worry about Seashells and Windmills when we should be worried about our country that is being taken over by American billionaire oligarchs.
I am terribly concerned about seashells. They make me very nervous when I walk on a beach. Who really knows what they are planning???
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/trump-signs-executive-order-banning-eb5
In that very same rambling speech, “I Have a Dream That No President Has Had to Take an ‘Am I a Cuckoo?’ Test,” Balm-Bam Trump inserted a math problem to freshen things up. I was surprised and welcomed it. In essence, he threw out a bunch of numbers (with lots of nines in them) and multiplication, division, and so forth—I lose track somewhere and start thinking I’ve got early signs of dementia—but then he doesn’t tell us the actual answer but boasts that the doctors are impressed. It was diverting.
Jeff, I think you are wrong in your analysis of Trump’s walk. If you watch again, as BamBam gets off the plane, he adjusts his waistband, which made me wonder if he’s losing weight. This would explain how he’s being blown off course.
I read on another Substack (don’t remember who) that when Margie refused to back down about the Epstein files, she received a note that harm could come to her son for her not being loyal to Bams. I’d heard other tales like that—I guess that’s how he’s been able to keep folks in line. In all seriousness, who do you report something like that to, given how corrupt LE is these days?
On the money Merrill!
THANK YOU for these wonderful pictures. ❤️❤️
He is clearly out of his mind and yet, his people just go about their business. I'll never understand how you can ignore his obvious decline. And I love that the felon is being prepped for a blood bath November. If things dont start to turn around, we are royally screwed....we already are, but I'm hoping.
Not only go about their business, but repeat their given messaging on every network
Squirrel... Squirrel... What about Moose?
Oh, I love your posts in honor of spouse and daughter. What an exemplary family life! Thank you, Jeff. And thank you for keeping the fire lit beneath so many of us who refuse to surrender our brains and moral compass to the orange orangutan and his ministries of silly everything.
Jeff, thank you so much for sharing your Claudia photos and memories with us. I've loved them all, but I think this one of Katie and Claudia from last year is my favorite.
Damn-we are so sick of this administration! Thanks for throwing humor into this deranged outfit! Pics of Claudia and Kate (I think I recall her name??!) are beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
If his walking from the helicopter or plane (that never crashes) gets much worse, a limousine will be pulled up for him to enter immediately. Bonus for us: no ridiculous “presser” on the tarmac. Another plus for him: less of a chance for him to a) lose his train of thought, and b) change his mind in mid thought.
Although it would be an opportunity for him to fail to recognize The Beast and walk right past it, as he has done before.
They pretty much do that with the limo already. After he walked past it & had to be retrieved during his 1st term (yes, he had dementia back then).
What I'm waiting for is him to go TIMBER! He's falling asleep WHILE STANDING. He did it again Mon, when the insider trader in charge of the SBA or whatever was speaking at the Small Business summit or whatever.
My dog even lies down to fall asleep. Farm animals sleep standing up. He is a bovine creature.
I wonder if he falls asleep on the helo on the regular